There should be hard labour, work camps prisons not prisons where you watch tv and read books all day

While there is always going to be punishment involved with prison and legal offences, as should be the case, that comes in the form of not being allowed out, seeing your family for a short amount of time, struggling to find employment after release and being told what to do in cramped, uncomfortable conditions. Being in prison under the conditions at the moment is tough, and there should be a greater understanding of this. However, prison should also be about helping the prisoners become better people. While there are some that would have known what they were doing, and will not regret what…  Read more they have done, most need help to get better and are actually good people that have often grown up in very tough situation. What we need to do is help them and make sure that they have employability skills to return to the real world. However, I do agree that as part of their punishment, filling in low paid and low skilled jobs, normally in the public sector would be useful, and help raise money to fund the state, whilst also being allowed free time to read books of their own choosing, deepen their faith (as many do in prison) and develop in particular analytical skills independently whilst they are there.